He has several projects upcoming, including a Steve Jobs biopic and a film based on the scandals of the John Edwards presidential campaign. The HBO TV series The Newsroom, starring Jeff Daniels premiered in 2012 and ended with a shortened final season in December 2014.

Self-Deprecation: In his appearance on 30 Rock which, given his famously thin-skinned reputation, is nothing short of astonishing.

Signature Style: Machine gun fast dialogue. Comedic repetition. Casual ShoutOuts by the metric ton. Tall, smart, sexy, sassy women who give as good as they get. Characters who veer oh-so-close to cynicism, only to come back to hope and idealism. Extremely liberal world view (at least by US standards). He includes common criticisms of his writing style in his short play Hidden in this Picture; a film director tells his Sorkin-proxy screenwriter the following

"I think your work has a tendency to be long-winded and cynical, I think you have trouble handling exposition, you take forever to introduce the inciting action, and all your female characters talk and act as if they've just stepped off The Love Boat."

Strawman Political: Any and all conservative characters will be so bad at arguing their points it's a wonder they can tie their shoes. Unless they're an MSNBC Conservative who joins in taking shots at the more "extreme" ones....

While Sorkin does give some conservative positions a fair hearing (if only to better rebut them), he doesn't even bother when discussing gun control, invariably making gun rights activists inarticulate fools. One West Wing episode is devoted entirely to Leo and Josh convincing five Congressmen to change their votes on a gun control bill - and none of them even tries to defend their position, opposing the bill solely to further their personal agendas.

He's also been accused of doing this with leftists (as opposed to liberals) - basically, anyone to the left of him gets the same treatment. He's particularly bad about portraying opponents of free trade.

For one specific example of the above, one episode of the The West Wing features an ultra-liberal Senator who chews Toby out for the President alienating his base,note by criticizing environmental extremists, mentioning the possibility of raising the retirement age and lauding a police officer accused of abusing a black suspect and he's portrayed as a Jerkass despite making a perfectly reasonable point.

Take That: Has been notorious for including references to people he didn't like in his works. Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip was when it reached its peak as almost every episode contained a cheap shot at someone Sorkin had dealt with. He has since improved a lot though.

Or the more egregious example of him devoting an entire subplot of The West Wing to insulting an Internet forum critical of the show.

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